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romney on libya. he said mitt romney has responded to the situation in libya as it has developed going to it's the president who has been unclear what his intention was with respect to our military's involvement in libya. whether or not you agree with president obama on foreign policy and i think that most americans find his foreign policy uncontroversial, it's hard to imagine that mitt romney will portray himself as the guy that makes more sense on foreign policy. if this is the new romney campaign plan, this is awkward timing for them to relaunch their campaign around the idea of a mitt romney foreign policy genius central. they have been making all lovey dovey with the paul ryan budget who mitt romney says he loves pit. mitt romney would like them to think mitt romney right there behind him. paul ryan's budget has a big foreign policy problem, which is he's just accused all of the top u.s. generals of lying to congress. >> why did the committee choose to go against the advice of the generals? >> we
romney on libya. he said mitt romney has responded to the situation in libya as it has developed going to it's the president who has been unclear what his intention was with respect to our military's involvement in libya. whether or not you agree with president obama on foreign policy and i think that most americans find his foreign policy uncontroversial, it's hard to imagine that mitt romney will portray himself as the guy that makes more sense on foreign policy. if this is the new romney...
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romney? he told the michigan press how wrong mitt romney was on the auto bailout on one of the biggest issues in his state. early on in the race he got the endorcement of republican congressman joe heck out of nevada. how does mr. heck express his enthusiasm for mitt romney? he informed the nevada press core that mr. romney was dead wrong on the biggest issue in his state, housing. down in arizona mitt romney gets the endorsement of randy pullen. how does randy pullen express his enthusiasm? he said, my guy has a hard time connecting with people. yes, sir, and you're not helping. former republican governor jon huntsman of utah drops out himself. he endorses mitt romney and how does he express his enthusiasm for mitt romney? >> gone are the days when the republican party used to put forward big bold visionary stuff. we're going to have problems politically until we get some sort of third party movement or some alternative voice out there that can put forward new ideas. >> by the way, vote for
romney? he told the michigan press how wrong mitt romney was on the auto bailout on one of the biggest issues in his state. early on in the race he got the endorcement of republican congressman joe heck out of nevada. how does mr. heck express his enthusiasm for mitt romney? he informed the nevada press core that mr. romney was dead wrong on the biggest issue in his state, housing. down in arizona mitt romney gets the endorsement of randy pullen. how does randy pullen express his enthusiasm? he...
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mitt romney at 28%. in both states ron paul running a distant fourth, ron paul did not campaign or spend money in either of these states. as soon as we know, you will know who has won and who has not tonight. we will stay on tv as long as that takes tonight, please stay with us. >>> nbc news can project a result in the republican primary in the great state of alabama. nbc news can project that the winner of the republican primary in alabama is rick santorum. we're still waiting for further results from mississippi, but in alabama, nbc news has called this race. this was a finding that is not totally out of keeping with the polling heading into tonight's results in alabama. but the polling in both alabama and mississippi is notoriously nonpredictive of those states' results on both the democratic and republican side. so rick santorum win tonight with 26% of the vote recorded. 35% for rick santorum. newt gingrich in second place, and mitt romney in third place. of course, these numbers will firm up over th
mitt romney at 28%. in both states ron paul running a distant fourth, ron paul did not campaign or spend money in either of these states. as soon as we know, you will know who has won and who has not tonight. we will stay on tv as long as that takes tonight, please stay with us. >>> nbc news can project a result in the republican primary in the great state of alabama. nbc news can project that the winner of the republican primary in alabama is rick santorum. we're still waiting for...
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between the romney campaign itself and the affiliated romney super pac, they're at over 3 million romney bucks in wisconsin advertising. that's versus a little over 300,000 santorum dollars. for his part, mr. santorum is starting to sound like he realizes that winning may not be the only option for him this year. >> if he for some reason asks you to be the vice presidential canndidate on his ticket, would you even consider it? would you consider it? >> look, i would do, in this race, as i always say, this is the most important race in our country's history. and so i'm going to do everything i can. >> so you're keeping your options open? >> i'll do whatever is necessary to help our country. >> see, usually you say i'm running for president, not vice president. he could be my vice president if that's what you mean. unless you're not in the running for president anymore. newt gingrich got the same question on fox news and gave a similar answer. those might be the strongest indicators yet that this race for the republican nomination is ending. but there's one last mystery item tonight in 201
between the romney campaign itself and the affiliated romney super pac, they're at over 3 million romney bucks in wisconsin advertising. that's versus a little over 300,000 santorum dollars. for his part, mr. santorum is starting to sound like he realizes that winning may not be the only option for him this year. >> if he for some reason asks you to be the vice presidential canndidate on his ticket, would you even consider it? would you consider it? >> look, i would do, in this...
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romney about this. he brought this up himself, as the funniest thing he could think of to talk to people in the midwest about. the hilarity of shutting down factories and then trying to avoid voters being mad at you about it. that is how you earn numbers like this! and no, it's not jealousy. people don't hate rich guys just because they're rich guys. rich guys who have hilarious stories to tell about closing down american factories, though, yeah, it is conceivable that people hate that. so that's one mitt romney problem. typified today on the campaign trail. the second big problem of the mitt romney candidacy also on display in the other major news from the campaign trail today. and that was mr. romney today collecting the endorsement of president bush. now -- not him, the other president bush, the other one. other one! yes, thank you. the senior president bush. that's actually a picture of george h.w. bush and mitt romney and barbara bush and a pooch meeting together last year, but the senior president
romney about this. he brought this up himself, as the funniest thing he could think of to talk to people in the midwest about. the hilarity of shutting down factories and then trying to avoid voters being mad at you about it. that is how you earn numbers like this! and no, it's not jealousy. people don't hate rich guys just because they're rich guys. rich guys who have hilarious stories to tell about closing down american factories, though, yeah, it is conceivable that people hate that. so...
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mitt romney up to this point has been raising money from other people who are like mitt romney, raising money from other rich guys. and there it is again, right? when he is soliciting money, he's basically just talking to wealthy people. and to his credit, he has come up with a really great pitch to wealthy people which is, here, look what i'll do for you. a new analysis by the nonpartisan tax policy center shows wealthy people will make out like bandits under mitt romney's tax plan. quote, the romney plan would give the top 1% of earners an average tax cut of $150,000. those making $1 million or more would receive an average tax cut of $250,000. so come, brothers, let us reason together. clearly if you're a wealthy person, this is the campaign for you. that's one problem. mitt romney is going where the money is because in part he has a message that works for rich people. it's harder for him to make the same pitch for the people at the bottom of the economic ladder who in fact will pay more taxes under mitt romney's plan. here's the other problem with this. if you're a working stiff, if
mitt romney up to this point has been raising money from other people who are like mitt romney, raising money from other rich guys. and there it is again, right? when he is soliciting money, he's basically just talking to wealthy people. and to his credit, he has come up with a really great pitch to wealthy people which is, here, look what i'll do for you. a new analysis by the nonpartisan tax policy center shows wealthy people will make out like bandits under mitt romney's tax plan. quote, the...
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romney was on a show, yesterday mr. romney was on another fox news program hosted by megan kelly. that interview actually ended up being a little testy at times. >> you know, you're struggling, though, with folks that make less than $100,000. >> no, no, no. >> in ohio -- >> you don't win a million more votes than anyone else in this race by just appealing to high-income americans. >> no, no, no, no. point of fact here, i'm on megan kelly's side. if you are mitt romney, you do win races by just appealing to high-income americans. i mean, we've talked about this on the show. that is how he won ohio. ms. kelly was right about this, mitt romney tied or lost every other income bracket in ohio except ohio republicans making more than $100,000 a year. mitt romney cleaned up in that category and was, thereby, able to win the state, but he lost or tied with everybody else, and it was the same thing in michigan. mitt romney lost every single lower income bracket to rick santorum. everybody who makes less than $100,000 a year in those brackets, he lost. but he won so big in the electorate th
romney was on a show, yesterday mr. romney was on another fox news program hosted by megan kelly. that interview actually ended up being a little testy at times. >> you know, you're struggling, though, with folks that make less than $100,000. >> no, no, no. >> in ohio -- >> you don't win a million more votes than anyone else in this race by just appealing to high-income americans. >> no, no, no, no. point of fact here, i'm on megan kelly's side. if you are mitt...
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romney and mr. romney will win by hook or by crook? mr. gingrich addressed his supporters in alabama within the last hour and reiterated that he's not getting out and he's taking his campaign all the way to the rip convention in tampa. of course, they all say that before they get out. time will tell. >>> this may also be an appropriate time to take a step back and kwon seed one of mr. gingrich's points which is that, everybody has been wrong so far about the race to pick a republican nominee for president. the media, self included, has been wrong about who would show strength and who would be viable. but it's not just the media. it's insiders who have been really, really, really wrong about this race in guy say real insider. >> we're going to win this thing with all our passion and strength. >> that was mitt romney in marion, iowa, before the iowa caucuses predicting that he would win iowa. mr. romney, of course, lost iowa to rick santorum. now, this was mitt romney's campaign saying in a web ad that south carolina would pick a president i
romney and mr. romney will win by hook or by crook? mr. gingrich addressed his supporters in alabama within the last hour and reiterated that he's not getting out and he's taking his campaign all the way to the rip convention in tampa. of course, they all say that before they get out. time will tell. >>> this may also be an appropriate time to take a step back and kwon seed one of mr. gingrich's points which is that, everybody has been wrong so far about the race to pick a republican...
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>>> that is in my district, we decided to help greet the romney supporters, if not romney himself. we had the president of planned parenthood of illinois and myself and about a dozen women holding signs that says, keep your mitts off our birth control. and lots and lots of media out there, out there with us, just to continue to send the message that women are simply not going to go along with mitt romney who said that, you know, he's just going to stop funding -- what did he say? he's going to end planned parenthood? get rid of it. those were his words. just a flip comment -- oh, yes, that he was going to get rid of it. that he was defund the $75 million, that's 0.002% of the federal budget from planned parenthood. >> heading in the illinois primary, it has been strange to see mr. romney try to out flank rick santorum on the right, saying he's too liberal on the issues like reproductive rights and mitt romney wants to be seen as more right wing than rick santorum on these issues. what do you think that's going to do to the illinois vote? >>> the problem for mitt he needs to double
>>> that is in my district, we decided to help greet the romney supporters, if not romney himself. we had the president of planned parenthood of illinois and myself and about a dozen women holding signs that says, keep your mitts off our birth control. and lots and lots of media out there, out there with us, just to continue to send the message that women are simply not going to go along with mitt romney who said that, you know, he's just going to stop funding -- what did he say? he's...
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romney. and here was mitt romney yesterday in mobile, alabama, predicting who was going to win the alabama republican primary today. >> your generosity, for your warm reception, for your hospitality and for your votes. we're going to win tomorrow. we need your help. >> mitt romney saying yesterday that he would win alabama today. mr. romney did not win alabama today. rick santorum did. which is the kind of thing that might not be as bad a blow to the romney campaign if mr. romney didn't keep predicting out loud that he would win these things he can't win. the website, buzzfeed, generalizing from the unearned declaration of confidence, quote, mitt romney always thinks he's going to win. mr. romney did not win tonight in alabama. he did not win tonight in mississippi. both those states being called by nbc news for rick santorum. in both cases at this hour, mitt romney is not even just losing to rick santorum, in both these states mitt romney is running third. joining us now at great pearl to hi
romney. and here was mitt romney yesterday in mobile, alabama, predicting who was going to win the alabama republican primary today. >> your generosity, for your warm reception, for your hospitality and for your votes. we're going to win tomorrow. we need your help. >> mitt romney saying yesterday that he would win alabama today. mr. romney did not win alabama today. rick santorum did. which is the kind of thing that might not be as bad a blow to the romney campaign if mr. romney...
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maybe they can be mitt romney's base, too. frank rich from "new york magazine" is joining us next. [ male announcer ] don't miss red lobster's lobsterfest. the only time of year you can savor 12 exciting lobster entrees, like lobster lover's dream i'm laura mclennan and i sea food differently. and i thought "i can't do this, it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn their bachelor's or master's degree for tomorrow's careers. this is your moment. let nothing stand in your way. devry university, proud to support the education of our u.s. olympic team. oh. let's go. from the crack, off the backboard. [ laughs ] dad! [ laughs ] whoo! oh! you're up! oh! oh! so close! now where were we? ok, this one's good for two. score! [ male announcer ] share what you love with who you love. kellogg's frosted flakes. they're gr-r-eat! so every year my family throws this great reunion in austin. but this ye
maybe they can be mitt romney's base, too. frank rich from "new york magazine" is joining us next. [ male announcer ] don't miss red lobster's lobsterfest. the only time of year you can savor 12 exciting lobster entrees, like lobster lover's dream i'm laura mclennan and i sea food differently. and i thought "i can't do this, it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ]...
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mitt romney's, 38% of the vote, rick santorum, 37% of the volt even though the polls have been closed more than 48 hours, mitt romney remains the apparent winner of ohio rather than the official winner of ohio, according to nbc news you can the were, you can sigh there at the bottom of the screen, we still don't have all of the vote in from ohio. only 97% of the vote reported here to nbc. it is unclear the delay in accounting -- reporting the vote. there was more to count this time around. in ohio, 1.2 million republicans cast ballots on tuesday but that doesn't mean that everybody who wanted to vote in ohio on tuesday got to vote. this is from cleveland's plains dealer. turned away from a poll willing place because his driver's license expired in january and his new veteran's affairs i.d. did not include his home address. ohio's one of a number of states across the country where you can't get a regular ballot to vote without showing documents that you didn't used to have to show to vote. now you can't vote in ohio unless you can show documents, usually with a photo included, that pro
mitt romney's, 38% of the vote, rick santorum, 37% of the volt even though the polls have been closed more than 48 hours, mitt romney remains the apparent winner of ohio rather than the official winner of ohio, according to nbc news you can the were, you can sigh there at the bottom of the screen, we still don't have all of the vote in from ohio. only 97% of the vote reported here to nbc. it is unclear the delay in accounting -- reporting the vote. there was more to count this time around. in...
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rights and mitt romney wants to be seen as more right wing. what do you think that will do to the illinois vote? >>> the problem for mitt he needs to double down on this, in 2002 he sought the support of planned parenthood, when he was running for governor. so i think he feels like he needs to prove himself by even moving more to the right. it will be very interesting to see, rachel, how this plays out in illinois. we have a somewhat of an upstate down state difference in the voters, but the other thing about illinois and chicagoans, they like authenticity, we're a straightforward bunch here, i'm not sure if mitt romney with the fakeness he projects will be attractive to the voters here. >> democratic congress woman jan schakowski of illinois, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> not all friday nights are created equal. a candidate for the single most upside down paranoid attack on the president of the united states we have yet seen from the right is coming up. plus the one and only le wis black is our guest for the interview, stay with u
rights and mitt romney wants to be seen as more right wing. what do you think that will do to the illinois vote? >>> the problem for mitt he needs to double down on this, in 2002 he sought the support of planned parenthood, when he was running for governor. so i think he feels like he needs to prove himself by even moving more to the right. it will be very interesting to see, rachel, how this plays out in illinois. we have a somewhat of an upstate down state difference in the voters,...